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Bookshelves

Bookshelf \Book"shelf`\, n.; pl. Bookshelves. A shelf to hold books.

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bookshelves

n. (plural of bookshelf English)

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bookshelves

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bookshelf
  1. n. a shelf on which to keep books

  2. [also: bookshelves (pl)]

Usage examples of "bookshelves".

It occurred to me that permanent bookshelves wouldn't wobble, and they'd provide a lot more shelf space.

Moving my furniture and building the bookshelves won't take too long, so why don't we zero in on the fourteenth for move-in day.

I definitely think permanent bookshelves in every room is an excellent idea.

That's why we're lugging all these boards inside: I'm building bookshelves.

I'm a little busy for that, what with putting up all these bookshelves.

Trish likes the idea so much that I'll probably be building bookshelves in bathrooms and closets before the end of the school year.

After an hour or so of unloading boxes and randomly shelving, I stopped and stood in the center of the room, glowering at my bookshelves.

As I did my big grey tom, Mister, bounded down from his place on top of one of the bookshelves, but rather than give me his usual shoulder-block of greeting, he flicked his tail disdainfully at me and ghosted out the front door.

She had mostly secondhand furniture, an ancient old fridge, mis-matched bookshelves that overflowed with paperbacks and textbooks, and a tiny, aged television that looked as if it didn't get much use.

It contained an overstuffed leather chair, a reading lamp, an antique trestle desk and chair and no other furniture except for floor-to-ceiling bookshelves that covered every available inch of wall space.

Brightly coloured spines filled four walls of floor-to-ceiling bookshelves and two rows of library stacks.

Then I looked at some of the bookshelves and went down the aisles between the library stacks.

A heavily built, crew-cut man in his early sixties came walking along the bookshelves, halted near Abram, smiled with all of his tanned face, and came closer.

In the office Harlan Scovil sat in the leather chair over by the bookshelves.

Rowcliff went around the rows of bookshelves taking measurements with his eyes for a concealed closet, and where the poker-dart board was hanging on a screen he pulled the screen around to look behind it.